# Quote — James Morrow, Towing Jehovah

> “I knew this guy one, a demac on the Amoco Cádiz, dying of bone cancer. You know what he said? ‘When they give you morphine like there’s no tomorrow, there isn’t.’”

- Author: [James Morrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow.md)
- Book: [Towing Jehovah](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah.md)
- Page: 321
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_K._Morrow#Towing_Jehovah_(1994)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah/i-knew-this

## More from this book

> Somehow his grandfather had wrought an honorable and glamorous life from the sea. But that era was gone. The system was dying. Advising a young man to join the United States Merchant Marine was like advising him to go into vaudeville.

p. 44 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah/somehow-his-grandfather.md)

> “Another boyfriend?”
>
> “A character in one of my plays. Runkleberg’s my twentieth-century Abraham. One fine morning he’s out watering his roses, and he hears God’s voice telling him to sacrifice his son.”
>
> “Does he obey?”
>
> “His wife intervenes.”
>
> “How?”
>
> “She castrates him with his hedge clippers, and he bleeds to death.”

p. 71 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah/another-boyfriend-a-character.md)

> Sweetie, if I’ve learned anything during my ten years at sea, it’s this. Never confuse your captain with God.

p. 74 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah/sweetie-if-ive.md)